Pictures of the Year 2010

Food
Photograph by Marco Di Lauro / Reportage / Getty Images
Butchered meat hangs in a village in Niger, where meat traders will cook it and ship it to Nigeria for sale. After a severe food crisis in the spring caused many animals in the region to die, the traders bought them for a fraction of their value and resold the cooked meat for profit.

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